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The Auto Flash Class Panel is an extension for Flash CS5 that will let You get rid of the tedious work of naming Your library items and believe Me when you working with small projects this is something that you can do by yourself without much effort but as projects get bigger and the amount of things you have to give a class name for working with them in ActionScript the task can really become tedious and cumbersome. Enter Matan Uberstein’s Auto Flash Class Panel.

The panel will let You select and give class names to your library items with a few clicks (literally), for installation You must have the Adobe Extencion Manager if you don’t have it already installed You can download it from here. To start using the Auto Flash Class Panel you can get the version 2 here.

Once You have it installed fire up Flash and open the panel in Window>Other Panels>AutoFlashClassPanel the the panel is packed with a rich interface split into two sections (see Fig. 1), Selector and Classer. The Selector section automatically selects all the library items that match your criteria. Choose from MovieClips, Bitmaps, Sounds, Fonts or Buttons. Once you are happy with your selection of library items, you simply use the Classer section to automatically insert class, base class and tick the ‘export’ checkbox.

Fig. 1

One of the cool features is that the Class and package names are generated form your library folder structure so to get your classes in the proper packages all you need to do is to sort your library items in those folders e.g. “com.swfgeek.robotlegs.views.MainAnimation” ( see Fig. 2).

Fig. 2

With one simple click your library is ready for export. Saves you the effort of right clicking on the library item going to properties, ticking the ‘export’ checkbox and typing in the package/class name. In the Classer section you can adjust the base class of your items( see Fig. 3)

Fig. 3

The Auto Flash Class Panel is also fully customizable, to modify how it works or add your custom base classes to the menu click the settings button and customize how you want the panel to work and function(see fig. 4).

Fig. 4

The panel was built with Robotlegs, AS3Signals, MinimalComps and FDT4. I’ve been using it in my diary projects workflow for over a week now and it’s a really time saver, check out Matan’s post about it and be sure not to miss his upcoming presentation on Asset Loader this 17th of December.

So for the third part of this series and I guess the last now that Adobe released the CS5 and You can explore the new Flash CS5 by Your own, in the above video I’m showing you the ActionScript 3.0 code snippets panel this cool little panel will be loved by designers and new coders alike. Lee Brimelow had already made one snippets panel and this one is based on that, to use it you simply select your movie clip and drag one snippet from this panel, your timeline will automatically add an ActionScript layer with the code needed. You can also create your own snippets so if you’re new to coding or a designer this panel will help you out a lot.